Otto Laske

Effective immediately, Laske’s research on developmental and dialectical thinking, found in two titles of ‘Measuring Hidden Dimensions’ called “volume 1” and “volume 2”, is available in updated pdf form at http://www.interdevelopmentals.org/?page_id=1974. These titles can be purchased via Paypal, upon which they will be sent out by the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) within 48 hrs. of receiving… [Read More]

It is almost 20 years ago that, following Argyris’ research on theory-in-use vs. espoused theory, I began to show that both of these personal ‘theories’ are rooted in adult development over the life span. I began to take these personal ideologies apart into their social-emotional and cognitive dimensions and showed that they are intrinsically related…. [Read More]

This blog makes accessible, and comments on, a 2010 publication of the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF) that is still largely unknown in Europe and the US. The publication is in the form of an issue of Wirtschaftspsychologie, a Swiss-German magazine focused on the psychology of work delivery, and referred to… [Read More]

Otto Laske’s contributions to social-science, process consultation, and the teaching of & mentoring in developmental thinking and listening extend from 1999 to the present day. Many of his articles, keynotes, and teaching materials in English and German, as well as translations into Spanish and Italian, have recently been posted on this website under individual BLOGS… [Read More]

Cognitive interviewing is an art as well as science nowhere taught or practiced today. It is a kind of evidence-based interviewing that is anchored in dialectical listening. In focus in such listening are the thought forms a person uses as soon as s(he) opens her mouth, which are thus inescapable. Only a listener/thinker schooled in… [Read More]

Starting in 2014, coach education at IDM shifted to team coaching. In this blog, the reader finds materials that form the basis of my collaboration with Jan De Visch on the book “Dynamic Collaboration: Strengthening Self-Organization and Collaborative Intelligence in Teams” of 2018. One of the basic tenets of this book — that organizations comprise… [Read More]

Are you still enamored by competence notions although they now just express that you haven't grasped distributed leadership requirements? Have a look at https://t.co/4wSZt4881a to get over the bad habit. @jjandevisch #idmcdf

As a developmentally schooled consultant and coach are you still on the social-emotional triumphalism train that foregoes or neglects strictly cognitive tools such as provided by Laske's DTF? If so, look at https://t.co/SuRaDRlBqi #idmcdf @jandevisch especially for team work

That's precisely the issue. And the deeper issue of collaborative intelligence are your own since you need to be self-organized yourself (i.e., developed emotionally and cognitively) to set an example. #idmcdf

Are you still following the anachronistic social sciences that are uninformed developmentally and getting tired of it? If so, have a look at https://t.co/yYb8wSrKYI to acquire a broader perspective, also for the sake of your students, #idmcdf